ISBN:
9789004279193
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (252 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Balkan Studies Library v.15
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.894350499
Keywords:
Aliani (Bulgarian people) ; Ethnic identity
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Ethnic relations ; Bulagaria
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Ethnic relations ; Turkey
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Religious minorities ; Bulgaria
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Religious minorities ; Turkey
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In Managing Invisibility, Hande Sözer examines complicated invisibilities of Alevi Bulgarian Turks as a double-minority which faces structural and societal discrimination in Bulgaria and Turkey. The data for the book was gathered during 18 months of fieldwork in both settings.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Paradoxical Invisibility: Fortifying Invisibility for Empowerment in the Face of Disempowering Structural Invisibilities -- Why Alevis, Alevi Bulgarian Turks and their Invisibilities? -- Invisibilities and the Notion of Dissimulation -- Field Sites -- Outline of the Chapters -- Chapter 2 Open Methods for Researching Hidden Populations: Epistemological and Ethical Issues -- An Empirical Question: "How Do You Know Your Informants Have Not Dissimulated to You?" -- Access Hinting Alevis' Visibilities and Invisibilities -- A Complicated Situation of Rapport: "Interview as a Form of İbadet (Worshipping)" -- Not Really a Native Ethnographer: "I Am a Zahiri, Not a Yezid" -- Red Flags: The Secret, Slanders and Other Taboo Issues -- An Ethical Question: "If Dissimulation is a Survival Tactic for Alevis, How Might Publishing about these Tactics Influence the Community?" -- Research Design -- Research Sites -- Interviews and Informant Profiles -- Participant Observation, Venues and Events -- Chapter 3 Dissimulation: Retaining Minority Identity while Pretending to be Part of the Majority -- Dissimulation In-Between Dissimilation and Assimilation -- Minorities, and Minorities within Minorities -- National Minorities and a Notion of Collective Agency -- Borders and Frontiers -- Chapter 4 History, Historicity, Historiography: Externalizing Alevism from the Bulgarian Turkish Group -- History -- Principality in Bulgaria, Monarchy in the Ottoman Empire (1878-1908) -- The Kingdom and the Republic in Bulgaria, the Monarchy in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1923) -- Totalitarianism in Bulgaria and the Single-Party Republic in Turkey (1923-1944) -- Socialist People's Republic in Bulgaria, Multi-Party Republic in Turkey (1944-1989).
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